[Public-List] topping lifts

[Mike Meinhold via Public-List]

If your topping lift must be on to prevent the boom from hitting the
dodger, you are suffering from very poor main trim.  I suggest you try an
experiment - take the dodger down and take the topping lift off, and try
sailing upwind. I am sure you will see the difference.  Tjhe mainsheet must
be allowed to change the tension in the leech, and the topping lift
prevents this.  That said, you can use a topping lift to open the leech if
needed.

The solution may be as simple as raising the main at the mast as high as
possbile.  Make sure there is no downhaul limiting the hieight of the
gooseneck, and make sure the gooseneck is free to go up in the track..

Mike
Rinn Duin #272

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:53 PM, James Cowhey via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> That had been my experience except with wire lifts not braided line.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Sep 25, 2017, at 4:52 PM, gordon white via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >
> >    O.K., I'm going to reveal my ignorance here. I have been sailing
> since 1942, not only on my boats, but with a number of other sailors on
> other boats, but I have never seen a topping lift un-hooked from the boom
> while sailing.  Now I once had a gaff-rigged schooner that had no topping
> lifts, but on marconi-rigged sloops the topping lift has always remained in
> place.
> >
> >    It keeps the boom from hitting my dodger (or my head) when coming
> about and has other uses, mostly involving safety. Attempting to release
> and re-attach a lift even in a near-calm, strikes me as hazardous. I have a
> woven dacron topping lift that does not seem to hazard the roach of the
> main.
> >
> >
> >    Have I been sadly in error these 75 years??
> >
> >
> > Gordon White
> >
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